Your stress didn't really come through in the writing, maybe if I was in person with you when you're talking about it I would see it. I get anxious even reading letters from so-called 'authority', and hate being in the vicinity of anyone in those scary costumes!
As for Meatloaf...that's the soundest theory I've heard yet for that song!
RE: The First Hive Marriage; Separation and Arrested in a Foreign Country